Italian guy here. Berlusconi is a shame on so many levels it's hard even to count them. He was forbidden to enter public seats after being found guilty of corruption, after oh-so-many trials ended because he passed laws to make the facts "not a felony" or somehow changing the trials' timing rules and making them retroactively null and void... but he stills influences "his" party a lot, and the "opposition" still credits him a lot of respect.

Later mandates never did a thing to fix, and the wake of this changes to save his sorry ass is still hitting justice in Italy: recently an asbesto-environmental-fraud related process went null because of laws he passed when he was in charge.